Deciding when — or whether — to treat a child with ITP can feel overwhelming for families. In this episode of Beyond the Count, Associate Professor Dr Tina Carter, Paediatric Haematologist at Perth Children’s Hospital, brings more than 30 years of experience to help parents understand how clinicians make these decisions. Tina explains why ITP is always a diagnosis of exclusion, what doctors look for during assessment, and how factors like bleeding, age, symptoms, and family anxiety influence ...
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Deciding when — or whether — to treat a child with ITP can feel overwhelming for families. In this episode of Beyond the Count, Associate Professor Dr Tina Carter, Paediatric Haematologist at Perth Children’s Hospital, brings more than 30 years of experience to help parents understand how clinicians make these decisions. Tina explains why ITP is always a diagnosis of exclusion, what doctors look for during assessment, and how factors like bleeding, age, symptoms, and family anxiety influence ...
Fuelling Your Health - Reducing Bleeding through Nutrition
Beyond the Count
15 minutes
5 months ago
Fuelling Your Health - Reducing Bleeding through Nutrition
In Part 2 of our four-part Fuelling Your Health series, Dr Phil Choi returns to explore how food and nutrition may help support your platelets' ability to function, not just how many you have. Bleeding is one of the most common symptoms of ITP, but what you eat might play a small supporting role in how well your platelets work. Dr Choi unpacks the role of nutrients like vitamin C and vitamin K, and explains how certain foods and supplements - such as alcohol, garlic, or fish oil - can interf...
Beyond the Count
Deciding when — or whether — to treat a child with ITP can feel overwhelming for families. In this episode of Beyond the Count, Associate Professor Dr Tina Carter, Paediatric Haematologist at Perth Children’s Hospital, brings more than 30 years of experience to help parents understand how clinicians make these decisions. Tina explains why ITP is always a diagnosis of exclusion, what doctors look for during assessment, and how factors like bleeding, age, symptoms, and family anxiety influence ...
